War in the Cities Recently‚ Mexico has been facing a horrendous civil war. This internal conflict is coming from the country’s powerful drug leaders. This epic drug war was been taking place ever since these “cartels” relocated from the South American nation of Columbia to Mexico in the mid 1980s. since then ‚ this bloody conflict has arose several issues in Mexico. Mexico’s new president‚ Felipe Calderon‚ just recently launched an all out military campaign against these drug lords in
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Project – Mexican Drug War; the United States Since Felipe Calderon became the president of Mexico in December of 2006‚ more than 30‚000 people have died in this nationwide turf war. A large majority of these murders are happening in the states of Chihuahua and Baja‚ California both of which border the United States. Soon after Calderon took office he launched a military-led war on drugs and that set off conflicts all over the country between rivaling cartels. Not only has there been a war between the
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INTL 4997: The Mexican Drug trade | Reading Response #3 | | | Audrey Robert | 10/31/2012 | | David Mares gives us insight into the political economy of drug trafficking in his book Drug Wars and Coffee Houses. To help us understand how psychoactive substances are organized and distributed‚ he uses the concept of a commodity chain. A commodity chain is the system that links consumption of psychoactive substances to everything that makes it possible‚ and proves that if something
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I do believe that different people are affected by this war‚ especially because it does not occur in just one place. The war is all over the country‚ at the border‚ in the cities‚ and in smaller rural towns as well. Because of this we see men‚ women‚ children‚ and elderly affected all the same. Perhaps men are more involved in direct‚ violent
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free. Bernie Sanders should become our next president because of his ideals and his stance on marijuana‚ immigration‚ and the college for all act. The war on drugs has been on going throughout the U.S for a very long time and had costed many lives. Much of the reason for the deaths is because of the smuggling and what not of the drugs. “The war on drugs is a failed policy.” He believes He believes that non violent offenders should not be put in jail but get treatment for their addiction. He also thinks
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Economics 200 November 20‚ 2001 Economics is Winning Bolivia’s Drug War A 1998 article from the New York Times reported that Bolivia was winning its war against drugs as a result of two factors that influence the market for coca‚ which is used to make cocaine. First‚ Bolivian soldiers raided a number of coca plantations and destroyed the crops. Second‚ Colombians began growing more of their own coca and‚ as a result‚ now buy less from Bolivia than in the past. I am proposing that the basic
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The ideological and military coalition that began shortly after the end of World War II consisted of Western power against Eastern power. Due to different political opinions‚ the US and the USSR created a tension that would lead to doctrines‚ regulation‚ blockades‚ secrecy and more amongst themselves. Following the termination of the Cold War‚ historians‚ politicians and the public contradict one another regarding who had the most responsibility for the causation for such period of time. Some would
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Trust is an illusion‚ nothing more than a word‚ maybe even a trick to the drug dealing men of Mexico. The drug cartel leaders of Mexico’s most infamous cartels can really only trust themselves. The drug world is a dog eat dog kind of world. Chapo had enlisted the help of El Chito to escape Puente Grande‚ as he drove the getaway car. “...Chapo told the guard he was thirsty. El Chito went into a shop to buy him a bottle of water. When he got back to the car Chapo was gone (pg 31).” Chapo knew the more
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multiparty system. Instead of the country becoming a full on democracy with its problems settled‚ there was another coup in 1992. This specific coup resulted in a civil war between the violent rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the National Provisional Ruling Council (Edsall‚ Healey‚ and O’Donnell). This civil war resulted in the death of 50‚000‚ and abuse‚ rape‚ and life altering injuries to many others (Shah). In 1999‚ the Lome Peace Agreement was “signed in order to placate the
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While the city of Troy was being burned and sacked‚ a survivor known as Aeneas would begin a mission to deprive the Greeks of their victory of Troy not through the sword and spear‚ but through his words. Aeneas knew that the Greeks would tout themselves as brave strategists who managed to outwit the Trojans. The Greeks would make Aeneas city appear as though they were full of imbeciles that fell to the mighty hands of the Greeks. In order to tarnish the image the Greeks would no doubt boast‚ he
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